I have one question for the Fairphone devs after I watched the video below. /e/OS sounds great. But usually it’s a bad idea to ditch your vendor’s Android ROM. Because the vendor ROM also gets security updates related to e.g. the Qualcomm SoC. Which often cannot be redistributed due to licensing or…

since /e/ 0.18 the blobby qcom blob partitions are included too

[image] Kees: I have one question for the Fairphone devs after I watched the video below. Welcome to the forum, but to clarify this is not the support base for Fairphone but just a user forum. Someone though may well be able to confirm. [image] Kees: Does the collaboration between Fairp…

Referring to your introduction, you pose queries such as [image] Welcome! Introduce yourself here! But the monthly security fixes I enjoy from Google also include closed-source blobs from e.g. Qualcomm. Fairphone hasn’t provided monthly updates, so you may miss that [image] Welcome! Introd…

[image] Kees: Does the collaboration between Fairphone and /e/OS mean that you get the same treatment for these closed-source updates from e.g. Qualcomm? Can’t speak for /e/, but I’m quite sure LOS includes the firmware updates by pulling the blobs from the FPOS updates. See a few references…

Do you also know of a source that states this?

just comparing the images (payload_dumper), partition contents, shasums Some users being on /e/ had voice calling difficulties, while the OS version seemingly was the same, but modem/dsp…-partitions can differ depending on when they last flashed stock rom. So the resoution was to include the other …

Do 3rd party ROMs also get access to the closed-source Qualcomm updates?

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Alex.A September 10, 2021, 11:19pm 4

Can’t speak for /e/, but I’m quite sure LOS includes the firmware updates by pulling the blobs from the FPOS updates.
See a few references to LOS dev below: